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Re: Dodgy Government / Police One-Sided Thinking

Tue, 06 January 2004 12:01

justcallmefrank wrote on Tue, 06 January 2004 20:59

Apollo wrote on Tue, 06 January 2004 14:32

And quite frankly, bringing back a driving age of 21 would see some improvment (reducement) of moronic stunts some of these people pull as well on the roads.

While thats one way of looking at it, I believe that is a stupid suggestion. I'm not directly attacking you, but I don't think its the age that matters persay, its the level of training and the fact it is easy to get a licence.

Put it this way, based on a driving age of 21, I wont get my licence for 10 months from now, and I will have to wait another couple of years to feel confident enough in my driving abilities to drive a car like the one I'm restoring.

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I agree that the +21 idea isn't so good,

Isn't there an 18yr old race car driver? I believe abit of skill is required for that.

And how many under 21's require the use of a car to get to work or school, sure there are fukwits out there but why punish everyone? B4 for you say take public transport i'm 19 and work security at night theres no bus at this time and i'm not paying $50+ to take a taxi across town each night.

Please understand before quoting me.

Maturity is my point there.

18 year old racecar driver?

Where's the point? The road is not a race track and cannot be compared to it. As soon as you can understand that is the day you begin to be a better driver. If that is all that guy does is do track work, then he has no experience required for normal road driving.

And because you asked for it, don't take public transport, that's for loosers without a license. Get a different job instead. Razz

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Yeah. A driving age of 21 would reduce road accidents, but having a more rigorous testing system would reduce them much further in my opinion. I think fifteen should be the legal age for L plates, not 16. Having driving training at schools, having mandatory tests with driving instructors (perhaps payed for by the government) as well as mandatory defensive driving courses. Having tests every 5 years or so, and introducing my testing plan (yeah it would be a pain for good and average drivers, but it would get rid of a few shitty drivers and bring other shitty drivers up to a good level).

It sounds like what I've already ranted, except for the 15year old thing. Geezus mate, we don't need children behind a wheel. Unless your plan is for 15yo kids to have their L's (and only able to drive with a full licensed driver at all times) until they are 18 sounds like it could work.

The only way to get decent driving experience ATM except paying for an advanced driving course, (actually, in addition to), is to take a pizza delivery job for 3 years or so to gain plain experience. Worked fine for me. Almost 9 years on full license so far now and zero traffic violations against my name. Smile

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